This study focuses on the acoustic patterns of stop consonants and adjacent vowels as they develop in young children (ages 2;6-3;3) over a six month period. Speech is generated using a series of articulatory, laryngeal, ...

In recent years, research in human speech communication suggested that the inventory of sound units that are observed in vowels across languages is strongly influenced by the acoustic properties of the human subglottal ...

Adipose tissue serves two main functions in the body: (1) it is the body's primary energy depot; and (2) it also serves as an important endocrine organ, producing and secreting various enzymes, growth factors, cytokines, ...

The practice of brachytherapy and brachytherapy dosimetry was investigated with emphasis on evaluations of dose distributions and shielding considerations for both photon- and neutron-emitting radionuclides. Monte Carlo ...

Imaging speed is a crucial consideration for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The speed of conventional MRI is limited by hardware performance and physiological safety measures. "Parallel" MRI is a new technique that ...

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a developing medical imaging technology that generates micron resolution cross-sectional images of subsurface internal tissue structure in situ and in real time, without the need to ...

The clinical application of chemotherapy to brain malignancies has been severely limited because many potential therapeutic agents are typically unable to penetrate the blood-brain barrier (BBB). A novel approach to overcome ...

Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is the most common form of adult onset muscular dystrophy, affecting more than 1 in 8000 individuals globally. The symptoms of DM are multi-systemic and include myotonia, severe muscle wasting, ...

Aneuploidy, an abnormal complement of chromosomes, is present in approximately 90% of human malignancies. Despite over 100 years of research, many questions remain regarding the contribution of aneuploidy to the cancer ...

Poly-l-lysine and hexadimethrine bromide (polybrene) are cationic polymers which are frequently used to enhance the transduction efficiency of recombinant retroviruses in gene therapy experiments. Conversely, chondroitin ...